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Brain Broadcast – Web August 20, 2007

Posted by markdykeman in blog, changes, digg, helium, marketing, media, netscape, reddit, shoutwire, social bookmarking, websites, writing.
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I think I’m getting lost in a sea of blogs, social bookmarking, linking, networking, etc.  While it’s fun and kind of exciting to explore this new frontier, I don’t really feel like I’m getting anywhere, nor do I seem to have much in the way of direction or planning.

I’m doing stuff on Helium.  I posted on Triond.  I’m trying out Newsvine.  I’ve been trying to build up networks on Digg, Netscape, Reddit, and I also posted on Shoutwire.  I’m building up Del.icio.us bookmarks like mad.  I’ve been using StumbleUpon (neat idea, incidentally).  This blog is in both Blog Catalog and Technorati.

So what am I really trying to acheive here?  Fame?  Fortune?  Self-expression?  New opportunities?

 All of the above, to some extent, but man oh man right now I feel like I’m on a bullet train with the windows down.

 I suppose this feeling is natural as I explore all of these things.  Clearly, until you know how much you don’t know about a topic, it’s hard to ask meaningful questions and sometimes you don’t really know what you want until you see some examples.

 Maybe this is how some of my clients feel.

Brain Broadcast – Social Bookmarking August 9, 2007

Posted by markdykeman in blog, digg, marketing, netscape, reddit, shoutwire, social bookmarking.
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So, in addition to the writing I’m doing, I’m also trying to promote some of that same writing through the Internet.  Social bookmarking is a way for people to share links and tags (or key words within your posts) and thus bring more traffic to their websites or blogs.

To date I’ve tried:

  • Reddit
  • Shoutwire
  • Digg
  • Netscape

 Reddit was never very successful for yours truly, but I think that my content didn’t fit their site.  Shoutwire was better, but in the end I think there was, once again,  a bit of a mismatch between my content and the stuff they are used to seeing.

 I’m currently focusing on Digg and I’m trying to build up some contacts there. It’s starting to work a bit, I think, but like anything it takes time and effort.

I’m also going to work gradually on Netscape’s social bookmarking site as well. It seems a bit more general and it might be the best resource for my writing.

It’s fun to learn about this stuff.

Maybe I’ll even learn about search engine optimization someday.